Thursday, December 29, 2011

1 Corinthians Worksheet - Chapter 8



Daily Reading Personal Application Questions

1 Corinthians Chapter 8


1. What can you apply to your life from today's reading?

2. What portion of this chapter stands out to you?
3. How would you describe the theme of the chapter to someone who does not know much about the Bible?
4. What example did you find to follow?
5. Was there an error (sin) you found to avoid?
6. Did you find a duty (command) to obey?
7. How will reading this chapter effect your life from now on?
8. Pick a verse to meditate on and try to memorize it.
9. Was there a promise to claim?
10. What is your summary and prayer today?
Observation Questions For
1 Corinthians Chapter 8
1.  In regard to things sacrificed to idols, Paul knows that they know right from wrong in regard to it.  What does Paul say about just having knowledge? vs. 1
2.  What does Paul say that love will do? vs. 1
3.  How does this apply to the things taught in this chapter?  Think about knowledge verses love as you read and then comment on what you think it means in application.
4.  Paul is speaking to them concerning things eaten that have been first sacrificed to idols.  He said there is really "no such thing" as an idol or a god other than the true and living God.  What does he tell us about the one God and the Lord Jesus Christ? vs.4-6
5.  Not everyone has the knowledge that some of us do in these facts.  They may believe that there really is an idol and that the food has been sacrificed to the idol and that they should not eat the meat for that reason. If a person is concerned about this and chooses not to eat the meat, what attitude should you have toward them? vs.7-13
6.  When we treat another's conscience lightly and encourage them in the freedom we have come to know, we make them stumble in something they believe in their hearts to be wrong.  If we sin against them in this way, who are we really sinning against? vs. 12
7.  As believers, what freedoms can we give up so that another weaker believer will not stumble? vs. 13  - For Paul in his day with their customs, it was eating meat that might have been sacrificed to an idol - What are some things you think might apply to us in this way today?
8.  How will this lesson effect your life?  What is your prayer today?

1 Corinthians Worksheet - Chapter 7



Daily Reading Personal Application Questions
1 Corinthians Chapter 7

1. What can you apply to your life from today's reading?
2. What portion of this chapter stands out to you?
3. How would you describe the theme of the chapter to someone who does not know much about the Bible?
4. What example did you find to follow?
5. Was there an error (sin) you found to avoid?
6. Did you find a duty (command) to obey?
7. How will reading this chapter effect your life from now on?
8. Pick a verse to meditate on and try to memorize it.
9. Was there a promise to claim?
10. What is your summary and prayer today?
Observation Questions For
1 Corinthians Chapter 7
1.  Although Paul believes it is good if a man not touch a woman, why should a man have his own wife and a woman have her own husband? vs.1,2
2.  What are the husband and wife to do for one another? vs. 3,4
3.  What is the reason a man and wife would consent to not be together? vs. 5
4.  Why is it important that the two come together again as soon as they can? vs. 5
5.  This advice by Paul was not a command from the Lord, but the belief that Paul had to pass on to us.  What does Paul wish could be true for all people? vs. 7,8
6.  Paul was content to be single and wholly devoted to the Lord.  He was gifted in that way.  He said that if we burn in lust, what should we do? vs. 9
7.  Paul now gives a command from the Lord to those who are married.  What is it? vs. 10,11
8.  What is Paul's opinion of a man or woman having an unbelieving partner if they are willing to live with them? vs. 12,13
9.  What benefit is passed on to the children of the union if the believer remains in the household? vs. 14
10.  If however, the unbeliever wants to leave the believer, what happens to the believer in this case? vs. 15
11.  If the unbeliver wants to stay, what is Paul's reasoning for staying to the believer? vs. 16
12.  What is more important than whether a person is circumcised as was taught in the Jewish faith?  vs.17-20
13.  What was more important than whether a person was a slave to another or not? vs.20-24
14.  Why did Paul feel his opinions on the subjects should be considered and followed?  vs. 25
15.  In view of present day distress, what was Paul's opinion about those who are single and those who are married already? vs. 26-31
16.  What can the unmarried be mostly concerned about? vs.32,34
17.  When married, how are interests divided? vs. 33,34
18.  This advice was not to put a restraint on anyone, but for their benefit.  What was Paul wanting to promote? vs.35
19.  It is up to the father in regard to allowing or not allowing his daughter to be married.  It is not a sin for him to allow her to marry, but what did Paul say was even better? vs.36-38
20.  How long is a wife bound to her husband? vs. 39
21.  Although she is free to marry in the Lord under these circumstances, what is Paul's personal opinion under the Spirit of God for her greatest happiness? vs. 40
22.  How does this lesson change your thinking about dating, courtship, and marriage?  Did you have any revelation for your own life and the condition you may be in as a single person or a widow?  If you have children, how does it effect the way you will pray for them or advise them in the condition they are in at the present time?
23.  What is your prayer and reflection today?

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

1 Corinthians Worksheet - Chapter 6



Daily Reading Personal Application Questions
1 Corinthians Chapter 6

1. What can you apply to your life from today's reading?
2. What portion of this chapter stands out to you?
3. How would you describe the theme of the chapter to someone who does not know much about the Bible?
4. What example did you find to follow?
5. Was there an error (sin) you found to avoid?
6. Did you find a duty (command) to obey?
7. How will reading this chapter effect your life from now on?
8. Pick a verse to meditate on and try to memorize it.
9. Was there a promise to claim?
10. What is your summary and prayer today?
Observation Questions For
1 Corinthians Chapter 6
1.  Before whom should saints go, when they have a matter against a brother? vs. 1
2.  Who will judge the world in this verse? vs. 2
3.  Who shall judge the angels in this verse? vs. 3
4.   Paul asked the Corinthians “is there not a wise person among you that shall be able to judge between the brethren?" (vs.5) ... Yet who were the church people going to with their disputes? vs. 6 ?
5.  What would be the better thing to do rather than take a Christian to court? vs. 7,8
6.  The unrighteous shall not inherit what? vs.9
7.  Name the habitual sin lifestyles that will not inherit the kingdom of God, meaning that the person habitually does these things with no conviction or repentance for them? There are 10 lifestyles listed.  A true born again believer may struggle with these and stumble in regard to them, but they will not be the habit of their life.  Name these 10 things: 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. - (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
8.  The Corinthians had been some of these things before, but what had happened to them since that changed their lifestyles? vs.11
9.  Although all things are lawful for Paul, what does he refuse to allow to happen? vs. 12
10.  What is the body not intended for?  What is it intended for? vs. 13
11. What fact is given by Paul to the Corinthians as proof that God will raise them by his own power? (I Corinthians 6:14)
12. What happens to a person who joins himself to another person through a sexual act? vs.15-16
13. Who are we suppose to become one with in a spiritual act? vs. 17
14.  Why is it so important that we run away from sexual immorality? vs. 18
15.  Who does our body belong to and how should it be treated? vs. 19
16.  Who owns us and what should we do with our bodies? vs. 20
17.  How will this lesson effect your lifestyle habits?  What is your prayer today?

Monday, December 26, 2011

1 Corinthians Worksheet - Chapter 5




Daily Reading Personal Application Questions
1 Corinthians Chapter 5

1. What can you apply to your life from today's reading?
2. What portion of this chapter stands out to you?
3. How would you describe the theme of the chapter to someone who does not know much about the Bible?
4. What example did you find to follow?
5. Was there an error (sin) you found to avoid?
6. Did you find a duty (command) to obey?
7. How will reading this chapter effect your life from now on?
8. Pick a verse to meditate on and try to memorize it.
9. Was there a promise to claim?
10. What is your summary and prayer today?
Observation Questions For
1 Corinthians Chapter 5
1) What sin had been reported to Paul happening among the brethren at Corinth? (I Corinthians 5:1)
2) Who was guilty of this immorality? (I Corinthians 5:1)
3) What was the Corinthians attitude toward this sin of fornication in the Church? (I Corinthians 5:2)
4) How should the brethren at Corinth have felt about fornication in the Church? (I Corinthians 5:2)
5) What had Paul already done when he wrote the Corinthians about the fornicator? (I Corinthians 5:3)
6) When the Corinthians met to deliver the fornicator to Satan whose spirit would be there? (I Corinthians 5:4)
7) What further effect was sought in delivering the fornicator to Satan? (I Corinthians 5:5)
8. What did Paul think of the Corinthians glorying in the fornicator? (I Corinthians 5:6)
9) According to Paul who is our Passover? (I Corinthians 5:7)
10) Paul advised the Corinthians to keep the feast with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth and not with old leaven. What does the old leaven contain? (I Corinthians 5:8
11) To avoid fornicators, covetous, extortioners and idolaters altogether in this world, what would one need to do according to Paul? (I Corinthians 5:9-11)
12) What jurisdiction does Paul have over “outsiders” of the church at Corinth? (I Corinthians 5:12)
13) How or by whom will the “outsiders” of the church at Corinth be judged? (I Corinthians 5:13)

Sunday, December 25, 2011

1 Corinthians Worksheet - Chapter 4



Daily Reading Personal Application Questions
1 Corinthians Chapter 4

1. What can you apply to your life from today's reading?
2. What portion of this chapter stands out to you?
3. How would you describe the theme of the chapter to someone who does not know much about the Bible?
4. What example did you find to follow?
5. Was there an error (sin) you found to avoid?
6. Did you find a duty (command) to obey?
7. How will reading this chapter effect your life from now on?
8. Pick a verse to meditate on and try to memorize it.
9. Was there a promise to claim?
10. What is your summary and prayer today?
Observation Questions For
1 Corinthians Chapter 4
1) What was Paul a steward of and who did he say that they were ministers of? (I Corinthians 4:1)
2) It is required in stewards that a man be found how? (I Corinthians 4:2)
3) Who said, “yea, I judge not mine own self in this verse? (I Corinthians 4:3)
4) Upon whom does the final judgment wait? (I Corinthians 4:5)
5) When the Lord comes what will He bring to light? (I Corinthians 4:5)
6) What will the Lord make manifest when He comes? (I Corinthians 4:5)
7) Paul advised the Corinthians not to be puffed up one against whom? (I Corinthians 4:6)
8.  According to Paul since the Corinthian brethren had nothing they had not received from God. What question does he ask them? (I Corinthians 4:7)
9) Paul wrote the Corinthians that they were full, rich, and reigned as what? (I Corinthians 4:8
10) Where does Paul think God has set the apostles? (I Corinthians 4:9)
11) What did the apostles do to support themselves besides preaching? (I Corinthians 4:12)
12) What was the attitude of the apostles toward persecutions? (I Corinthians 4:12)
13) Who was made as filth of the world? (I Corinthians 4:13)
14) Who was the off scouring of all things? (I Corinthians 4:13)
15) What kind of sons were the Corinthians to Paul? (I Corinthians 4:14)
16) Through what means had Paul begotten the Corinthians in Jesus Christ? (I Corinthians 4:15)
17) Who does Paul beseech the Corinthians to follow? (I Corinthians 4:16)
18.  Who did Paul send to Corinth in this verse? (I Corinthians 4:17)
19) Paul said the Kingdom of God is not in word, but of what? (I Corinthians 4:20)
20) Paul asked the Corinthians “Shall I come unto you in love and in the spirit of meekness or with what? (I Corinthians 4:21)